Berlioz Photo Album :
Friends and acquaintances
in Russia

Unless otherwise stated all pictures on Berlioz Photos page have
been scanned from engravings, paintings, postcards and other publications in our own collection, including, on this page, Berlioz
and the Romantic Imagination and Stasov’s Selected Essays on
Music and various contemporary newspapers. All rights of reproduction reserved.

Composer and an admirer of Berlioz; Balakirev was the conductor of the Russian Musical
Society at the time of Berlioz’s second visit
to Russia. He was one of the well-known group of five Russian composers who met
Berlioz during his second visit and whose works were greatly
influenced by Berlioz’s music. The other four were Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov
(see below)

Berlioz first met Glinka in
1831 in Rome and saw him again in Paris in 1844-1845.
Berlioz attended a performance of his first opera, A
Life for the Tsar in Moscow.
Berlioz had included Glinka’s music in his concerts at the Cirque Olympique
in Paris in 1845.
The above lithograph is dated 1837 (artist unknown).

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)

Glinka Monument in St Petersburg

This monument, located on the Theatre Square, was inaugurated
on 3 February 1906.

Prince Odoievsky
was an amateur musician and writer whom Berlioz first met during
his 1847 visit to
Russia.

Anton
Grigorievitch Rubinstein (1829-1894)

Berlioz met Rubinstein during his second visit to Russia;
he was the director of St Petersburg Conservatoire until August 1867.
The date of the above engraving is 1886.

Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov
(1824-1906)

Stasov was one of Berlioz’s staunchest champions in Russia.
Berlioz first met him in St Petersburg in 1847, and saw him again in Paris in
1862, but it was only in 1867-8 that they started to become closer.
The above picture is courtesy
of Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination
(London: The Arts Council 1969).